Erik Pruyt

OMG. Pieter Derks op z'n best... Hiermee verdient hij ook een grootkruis. youtu.be/-ej0X8E-OsA

Or maybe it is some sort of thingy to sit on. Whatever it is, lesson #2 is that one should not buy this kind of crap. It fully disintegrates. I found pieces on a stretch of about 1km. See: more wind -> less #plastics -> longer walks. Today was better than the 50m walk yesterday.

Plastics are dangerous! Cleaning up the beach almost got me killed today. That guy (with instructor) crashed his kite < 1m from my head while I was picking up pieces of a disintegrating bodyboard. Lessons of the day: 1) if there is good wind, go kiting (hardly any plastics then)

Hard to see now that these #plastics are almost invisible on the beach. So easy to ignore. But... this is the result of collecting 50m of coastline only. Citizens of The Hague, Netherlands, World, please help me in 2 ways: 1) stop using plastics(!!!) and 2) go outside & clean up!

You're right. Yesterday I was picking up plastics on my local beach and for a sec I thought "maybe I should not clean up on a daily basis and just leave it here so that people see it"... but the sad thing is that hardly anyone sees it. Yesterday was mostly transparent film...

#plastic fishing lines and rope. Does anyone know whether the bigger ones are pieces of fishing nets? Among all this #plasticpollution only 1 straw. Several lighters. And losts of pieces of food packaging (icecream and #haribo sweets) and bags. And my favourite (not!): #McDonalds

Today's #plastics "catch" from my daily #beachcleanup stroll (The Hague, NL). Sad to see that there are more & more smaller & smaller particles. I've given up on smallest particles (<2cm). This pile is the result of 300m of coastline. Pieces of rope, lines, containers, balloons.

So, last summer I supped on the Mediterranean... and OMG, that was absolutely shocking. #plastic water & Coca-Cola bottles everywhere. But even worse... look at the water... lots of small plastic particles in the water. In some parts the top layer was 10cm of just #plasticsoup.

Here's an impression of todays #plastics catch on my local NL beach. I was lucky: it included a plastic backpack -yay- which I used for ropes. Will use it for 10+ yrs. Plastics should never be used for/as disposables nor for crappy stuff. Only 4 ultralight durables wo alternative

During my daily beach walk (Kijkduin, NL) I collect plastics. Usually a few kilograms. Today was a "highlight": I collected my own weight in plastics (80+ kg). Mainly foils (packaging from supermarkets), fishing ropes, ropes, lots of balloons, bottles, plus really big stuff. Sad.

Yesterday we officially opened our #tudelft #PolicyModellingLab in The Hague. Many thanks to all who opened (@Sbruines), organized the event (@XandraTober), presented, participated, and already worked on real impact studies for the PMLab. Let's deal with these #GrandChallenges!